I am using Open Camera Ver 1.48.3 with OnePlus Nord using Oxygen OS 11.
Also using Camera2 API on for creating RAW pictures, and for focus stacking (great utility – thank you!).
Have two questions reg focus stacking-
(1) The two focus sliders – which one does what? The help text -- “Two sliders appear, allowing you to change the "source" and "target" focus distance” -- is confusing me. It looks like one sets the closest focus point and the other the farthest. If so, which one does which in landscape/portrait modes?
(2) While setting the focus, is there any way to zoom into a particular area of the framed picture to check whether the targeted portion is indeed in focus? I feel this is not possible, but I might be wrong. It does show what appears to be the distance of the farthest focus point (from the closest focus point??) -- which is certainly helpful.
Thanks
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A learning reg #2: Enabling focus peaking in camera preview settings helped considerably in checking if the selected areas were properly focused. It made significant improvement. So this could be included in the help text for focus stacking as a recommendation. This might be a reasonable workaround to point #2 above.
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For (1), the first image taken will have the source focus distance, the last image will have the target focus distance (and interpolated for intermediate photos). So it doesn't matter which is closest or farthest, you can do it in either direction.
For (2), another option is Settings/Camera preview/"Focus assist", this will zoom when changing the sliders, so is hopefully closer to what you are after. I'll update the documentation to mention these for manual focus and focus bracketing.
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Thank you @mark-h. Yes, Focus Assist does help. Esp in combination with Peaking.
For some shots, a part of the object was lying outside the 2x or 4x focus-assisted frame. That was the reason for asking (2). Will continue to explore what else is possible, including moving the object back.
This app doesn't seem to have a paid version-- at least I did not see any mention of it in the help/menu. If that is indeed the case, do you accept small financial contributions?
Thanks again for the app , and for your response.
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I am using Open Camera Ver 1.48.3 with OnePlus Nord using Oxygen OS 11.
Also using Camera2 API on for creating RAW pictures, and for focus stacking (great utility – thank you!).
Have two questions reg focus stacking-
(1) The two focus sliders – which one does what? The help text -- “Two sliders appear, allowing you to change the "source" and "target" focus distance” -- is confusing me. It looks like one sets the closest focus point and the other the farthest. If so, which one does which in landscape/portrait modes?
(2) While setting the focus, is there any way to zoom into a particular area of the framed picture to check whether the targeted portion is indeed in focus? I feel this is not possible, but I might be wrong. It does show what appears to be the distance of the farthest focus point (from the closest focus point??) -- which is certainly helpful.
Thanks
A learning reg #2: Enabling focus peaking in camera preview settings helped considerably in checking if the selected areas were properly focused. It made significant improvement. So this could be included in the help text for focus stacking as a recommendation. This might be a reasonable workaround to point #2 above.
For (1), the first image taken will have the source focus distance, the last image will have the target focus distance (and interpolated for intermediate photos). So it doesn't matter which is closest or farthest, you can do it in either direction.
For (2), another option is Settings/Camera preview/"Focus assist", this will zoom when changing the sliders, so is hopefully closer to what you are after. I'll update the documentation to mention these for manual focus and focus bracketing.
Thank you @mark-h. Yes, Focus Assist does help. Esp in combination with Peaking.
For some shots, a part of the object was lying outside the 2x or 4x focus-assisted frame. That was the reason for asking (2). Will continue to explore what else is possible, including moving the object back.
This app doesn't seem to have a paid version-- at least I did not see any mention of it in the help/menu. If that is indeed the case, do you accept small financial contributions?
Thanks again for the app , and for your response.